Godfrey's Article on State

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[thatsbaseball]

I`ll assure you thatI have no questions at all about "Godfrey`s homosexuality".

 

[Spotdawg]

that Oxford is cosmopolitan and on a plain of intellectualism and worldliness that we cannot ever achieve. What red-panted bon vivant would ever stay at a hotel that didn't have the latest infestation via New York?

 

[Dawgpile]

Godfrey excels at pointing out the faults and weaknesses of his beloved university and it's community with great aplomb.

It seems that rather than regurgitating the now inaccurate arguments that Starkville is the "most barren, desolate and overwhelmingly morose places", he should instead refocus his vitriolic comments towards the leaders of his iconicLafayette Co. who failed to firstdeem Oxford as "Mississippi's College Town".

It's called Marketing, Steven.Sorry is perturbs you so.
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[ronpolk]

why if Oxford and Ole Miss are so much more awesome when more people live in Starkville and attend State. Guess its a crazy concept to think the demand to be somewhere makes it awesome. I'll take the Oxford is better talk so long as we keep beating their assineverything. Similar to this past year.

 

[esplanade91]

Ole Miss is the Heisman-blah blah blah of college towns. If we're going that route, Ole Miss isn't even on Mel Kiper's big board. It's a mid-round draft pick that at worst becomes a serviceable back-up. Athens is the #1 overall pick, Tuscaloosa is another first rounder who is meant to come in and wait on the bench behind your veteran, and Nashville is the flashy D-II player that is big risk, big reward that gets picked up earlier than expected.

The Square is awesome, but the police force sucks balls and it makes the The Square suck. If there's one thing anyone here can say about Starkville, you can get away with ANYTHING as long as you're not drinking and driving.

 

[OxpatchReb]

Not the voice that I had imagined in my mind.

 

[00Dawg]

Even now they're tied for the 9th largest Mississippi State chapter, and I have a distinct memory that 5 or 6 years ago they weren't that high.

 

[bonedaddy401]

Shouldn'tyou be out shopping for skinny jeans? Your out of yourelementDonny.

 

[RebelBruiser]

Athens = great college town, no argument, definitely one of the best around
Tuscaloosa = the endless strip mall a great college town?
Nashville = great city, but wouldn't qualify for the college town draft, Nashville is a great basketball player in an analogy where we're talking about football players

Just my brief thoughts on your draft pick descriptions.

 

[OxpatchReb]

State claiming "Cutest little college town in MS" is akin to Ford claiming that the Mustang is a hotter, more prestigious, more desirable vehicle than a Ferrari 599. No matter how sexy the guys on the Mustang production line think the she is, the rest of the world would pick a 599 in a heartbeat and it hurts those unionized wrench monkeys to admit such a thing. While corporate Ferrari wouldn't spend a dime in retaliation through marketing and advertisements, I'm sure that one or two Ferrari employees might take the time to craft a carefully worded, biting response to the such a preposterous claim while they sip Limoncello from the balconies of their mansions in Southern Italy.

Perhaps this will help you put Godfrey's article in the correct context, no?

 

[Temple of the Dawg]

is that you (being the Ole Miss collective) view yourself in this manner. I can assure you that the vast majority of people I know that have been to Oxford do not share the same gilded perspective (outside of the ones that attended class there).

 

[GroveHard]

start marketing campaigns when a dozen or so publications give you free pub. I think it's clear which town feels as if they have something to prove.

 

[thatsbaseball]

coquette : a woman who flirts lightheartedly with men

Thus mywonderingifhe wasquestioning Godfrey`s sexuality.

 

[Oxford Godfrey]

They could sell bedbugs at half a dozen botiques on the Square if they'd tell the platinum card tri delt crowd they were EXCLUSIVE FROM MANHATTAN.

 

[GroveHard]

them

these people

these too

want more?

 

[Jacknut1]

The website is the City of Starkville's. The author is stretching at best to say that Mullen/Stricklin are somehow involved with what the city puts on their site. Why wouldn't the city want to promote itself especially when an important part of it (MSU) is on a roll?

Like another poster said, when you have to resort to town smack....

 

[fishwater99]

"This is not a byproduct of win-ning football games. State’s barely done that (For all his glory, Mullen’s 14-11 with a single winning season)."

"Oxford is the all-time, undisputed Bear Bryant Rose Bowl Heisman Four Horseman Omnipotent Champion … of the Universe"

"Call out our pastoral visage and and we’ll promptly break a Tiffany wine flute over your thick, red clay fed ag school asses."

I can't to see his followup article on how they have the best tailgating experience in the nation, please make it so...Now get to writing you dumbass...

If you can't win on the fields, then you have to be better than little ole Mississippi State somewhere, whether it be tailgate or college town smack... lol

 

[Skink]

Sure, Starkville is the cup of tea that many people would prefer. Nothing wrong with that. But if you look at things that can actually be ranked, like public schools, Oxford crushes, and I mean CRUSHES Starkville. I would guess that the same applies to property values and other such things that people factor in when ranking quality of life.

 

[Dawgslife]

nm</p>

 

[idog]

oxford is just a dressed up yazoo city

 

[OxpatchReb]

Bring a bunch of Ford assembly line workers to the Ferrari plant in Modena, Italy and you'll hear exactly the same moaning and bitching you'd hear from State fans in Oxford. However, grab up a few hundred people from all over the country in a completely random fashion, walk them through the Ford Mustang plant in Flat Rock Michigan and you'll hear a few "cools", "neats" and "niiiices" because that factory really does have some nice stuff going on, now send that same unbiased group through Ferrari factory and you'll hear a significantly more intense reaction because it really is a spectacular place,

It's science.

 

[xxxWalkTheDawg]

The fact that UM fans have sunk so far as to concede that they absolutely suck at all sports that draw more than 100 fans but start town smack..... Or you comparing Oxford to a Ferrari 599 or anything close.


We enjoy you comparison of the mustang to the Ferrari.... But if you think the towns are that far apart... You are a 17 moron who doesn't need to open their mouth to further confirm it.

 

[MemphisMaroon]

Most of the Ole Miss alum that I know are women. As we all know, most women, 85% id say, don't genuinely care about sports the way men do. Sometimes they will act like it, and sure, in the middle of a big game they may cheer as loud as anybody. When it comes down to it, most of theme could really care less and can be described as fair weather fans at best. Sporting events are more or less social events, winning is always nice, but if State loses the game, no big deal.

So when State has success over OM in sports, I really only get to talk smack to one male friend of mine (who is reasonable and can take and give some trash talk), and then a handful of females (not reasonable).When we would win an Eggbowl I'd talk a little smack to any one of the Ole Miss girls I know, usually there response was something along the lines of "yeah, yeah, I don't really care about sports..." But sometimes, like the 2009 Eggbowl win, they would really get angry and throw out the "Starkville is a dump, Oxford is where its at" town smack, similar to what Godfrey just rolled out.

Long story short, I've learned to stop talking smack to the Ole Miss girl alum that I know, because instead of having a little fun and taking a little pride in State sports, all I would get as a response were derogatory, overblown, unoriginal responses about why MSU sucks. So you can probably see my point: a solid chunk of the Ole Miss fan base (Godfrey included, obviously) can't stand the smack from State fans, so they react like women, let emotion get the best of them, go outside of the sports world and blast us anyway they can. Enough said.

 

[OxpatchReb]

I do not believe OM or Oxford started this thing at all. That's squarely on the Greater Starkville Board

of Tourism and Convention.

And yes, the gap between Oxford and Starkville is most assuredly, as large. Prove me wrong. Go round up a group of everyday Americans from other states who've never been to, heard about or thought about the South. Put 'em on a bus, and let's do a week in Starkville and a week in Oxford and see who comes out on top and by what margin.

And yes, the burden of proof is on your shoulders, seeing as how you (Starkville) initiated this whole pissing match.

 

[tenureplan]

He meant to say 1985 fiero...

 

[GroveHard]

Oxford and Ole Miss fans didn't initiate the marketing campaign, and the suggestion that it was not directed toward Ole Miss fans or Oxford is laughable.

Here's a quote from the Dispatch:

<p class="article_text">
Contrasting Starkville with Oxford, branding expert Ben Muldrow
explained how the college town up north was making every effort to cast
itself as a destination without mentioning its biggest asset. He urged
Starkville to go the opposite direction.</p><p class="article_text">
"Own it, because Oxford doesn't promote itself as a college town," he said.</p><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">
Read more: http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=10675#ixzz1SBb6B41A
</div>

 

[MemphisMaroon]

I think most of the reasonable sixpackers would agree that Oxford has much more to offer to out-of-towners as far as a "cultural" experience. We get all that, personally I won't argue with you. You (Oxford) would win the tourist competition. What we are saying is this: it's not quite as awesome as you make it out to be, and believe it or not, State has a few things to offer in that department also.

But ya'll have got us right where you want us now, out of the realm of sports and in to the realm of which town in Mississippi has more to offer, a game you will always take great pride in winning. Please keep leaving the sports to us.

 

[xxxWalkTheDawg]

Round em up. A week of **** debating fruity beer and which cocktail makes them look the most professional and they will run


So you have all your panties up in a wad from the board of tourism. It's nice to see the current amount of envy from the current MSU domination of the state. And you are still butthurt from losing your old man costume. So all you have left is the town itself. I can see your position if that is the LAST thing you have.

 

[OxpatchReb]

Just astonishing.

 

[OxpatchReb]

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[KurtRambis4]

missing the point. This guy that wrote this doesn't think that. He's writing it as a joke. Deep down, he knows the two towns are virtually the same. Deep down, he knows the people are the same. There really is no difference, which he knows. He wrote this article as a joke. He could have said all of the stuff that he did about State, for Ole Miss. However, the funny part is, there are actually people that believe what he says. He did a good job with this joke. Unfortunately, people are going to take him too seriously (which would be the point of taking him serious, at all).

 

[OxpatchReb]

you have an abundance of unreasonable packers who hail all things MSU as the ultimate, without regard to logic, reason or facts. It is this drooling, rabbling, riotous majority that I'm playing with.

And yes, at this time, there is no reason for an OM fan to discuss sports with an MSU fan. But in fairness, is it not at least expected, reasonable and logical for OM fans to defend our position as the actual MS college town when that claim is infringed upon by over zealous Starkvillians? I mean, if some Oxford farming periodical claimed that the best cheese in the state is made in Lafayette County, would MSU fans not stand up to discount such a ridiculous claim? And for the record, you wouldn't hear a damned peep out of me defending such a bogus claim. State cheese is some damn good ****, fact.

 

[MemphisMaroon]

missing the point. This guy that wrote this doesn't think that. He's writing it as a joke. Deep down, he knows the two towns are virtually the same. Deep down, he knows the people are the same. There really is no difference, which he knows. He wrote this article as a joke. He could have said all of the stuff that he did about State, for Ole Miss. However, the funny part is, there are actually people that believe what he says. He did a good job with this joke. Unfortunately, people are going to take him too seriously (which would be the point of taking him serious, at all).

But it sure sounded like a delicately worded anti-State diatribe to me. If, deep down, Godfrey thinks that the two towns are virtually "the same," I'd be amazed. Maybe I am missing the point and Godfrey's Any Kaufman-esque ironic humor has just gone way over my head. To me the funny part was as you said- there are people who believe what he says- and he's one of them.

 

[gdogg]

damn he writes like Mel Tillis talks, and sadly doesn't realize that with each article published in the oxford eagle is further evidence
of his continued failure in journalism.

 

[xxxWalkTheDawg]

"uhh... Uhhh... Well your stupid!"


Since we are so tounge in cheek... allow me to apologize.


I'm sorry you UM fans have penis envy. I'm sorry we are rubbing your players' faces in the field\court as their asses are being whipped. I'm sorry your AD and Chancellor won't let you have your old man suit. I'm sorry that MSU is the more attractive university by the votes of student enrollment numbers. I'm most definitely sorry. Please accept my apologies.

 

[VirgilCain]

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[KurtRambis4]

me. This guy does not believe this. He's too intelligent to think what he wrote. It was a tired, played-out joke meant at getting a rise from some people and be used at a rallying-cry for others.

 

[OxpatchReb]

Did you go to college?

 

[drt7891]

Check your facts. MSU is larger than Ole Miss.

2009-2010 Enrollment for MSU was 19,644 (between 2 campuses). Enrollment for UM was 18,344 between all 4 campuses. So just on these numbers, sounds to me student's just aren't "flocking by the thousands" to live in Mississippi's "Cutest little college town."

Don't want to base this just on student populations? Let's look at the towns themselves.

Populations: Oxford- 18,916, Starkville- 23,888

Starkville is growing, and Starkville's government is working to improve it's image over a "hole in the road farm town in east Mississippi." As a matter of fact, according to the state website, Starkville hasn't seen a population as low as Oxford's is now since 1990. So, while we are running town smack, explain why Starkville has grown more and Oxford has, well, not.